Freetown City Council

Freetown City Council is the municipal government of the city of Freetown,[6][7] the capital of Sierra Leone. The Freetown City Council was established in 1893 and is one of the oldest municipal government in Africa.[8] The Freetown City Hall, located on Wallace-Johnson Street, is the meeting place and seat of government of the Freetown City Council[9]

Freetown City Council (FCC)
Type
Type
City Council
History
New session started
May, 2018
Leadership
Mayor of Freetown
Deputy Mayor of Freetown
Osman T. Koroma (APC)[1]
Chief Administrator of the Freetown City Council
Festus Kallay
Finance Officer of the Freetown City Council
Madina Bah
Structure
Length of term
4 years
AuthorityLocal Government Act, 2004[2][3][4]
Elections
Last election
March 7, 2018
Next election
2022
Meeting place
Freetown City Hall[5]
Freetown, Sierra Leone

The city of Freetown is politically divided into three regions: East End Freetown, Central Freetown and the West End of Freetown, which are subdivided into wards. Members of the Freetown city council, including the mayor, are directly elected every four years by the residents of Freetown and they represent different wards throughout the city.

Members of the Freetown City Councils are known as councillors, except the deputy mayor and the Mayor, in whom local executive power is vested within the city of Freetown. The City Council, including the Mayor, are responsible for the general management of the city of Freetown. The Mayor carry out laws pass by the city council. The Freetown City Council is noted for having its own municipal police force's. The current Mayor of Freetown is Her Worship Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE of the All People's Congress (APC).

All appointed members by the mayor must be approved by the Freetown City Council before taking office. Since its founding to present, virtually all mayors of Freetown are members of the Creole ethnic group. The Freetown City Council politics has been dominated by the All People's Congress party (APC).

The Freetown City Council is one of the most powerful municipal government in Africa. its powers include, but not limited to:

  • Collect local taxes[10]
  • Responsible for city cleaning and trash collection[11]
  • Has its own municipal police force[12]
  • Control streets and petty trading[13]
  • Issue of business license to shop owners and petty traders[14][15]
  • Monitor Motorcycle and bike riders
  • Remove abandon vehicles off the streets[16]
  • In charge of cemeteries in Freetown.[17]

×Supervises and inspect restaurants and local shops

References
  1. http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/printer_200522558.shtml
  2. http://www.sierra-leone.org/Laws/2004-1p.pdf
  3. "Local Councils: A pivotal but disappointing role in Sierra Leone's socio-political and economic development debate - feature-stories -".
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-11-14. Retrieved 2013-11-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Ambassador Kuang Visits Freetown City Hall".
  6. Wyse, Akintola J. G. (1 January 1987). "The Dissolution of Freetown City Council in 1926: A Negative Example of Political Apprenticeship in Colonial Sierra Leone". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 57 (4): 422–438. doi:10.2307/1159892. JSTOR 1159892.
  7. http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_200522714.shtml
  8. Wyse, Akintola J. G. (1 January 1987). "The Dissolution of Freetown City Council in 1926: A Negative Example of Political Apprenticeship in Colonial Sierra Leone". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 57 (4): 422–438. doi:10.2307/1159892. JSTOR 1159892.
  9. http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_200523642.shtml
  10. http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_200523426.shtml
  11. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2013-11-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. "In Sierra Leone, 140 Metropolitan Police Officers pass out".
  13. http://allafrica.com/stories/200401080209.html
  14. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-21. Retrieved 2013-11-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  15. http://allafrica.com/stories/200901130903.html
  16. "Travel Blog".
  17. Margai, Joseph S. "Those unprotected cemeteries in Freetown! – Sierra Express Media". sierraexpressmedia.com. Adeyemi Paul. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
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